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Walter Brennan
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| Nickname: | Walter Brennan / Walter Brennon / |
| Known for: | Sergeant York, To Have and Have Not, Rio Bravo |
| Birth name: | Walter Andrew Brennan |
| Birthday: | 25 July 1894, Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA |
| Height: | 5' 11" (1.80 m) |
Trivia
First actor to accumulate three Academy Awards and to date still the only actor to win three Oscars as Best Supporting Actor.
Daughter: Ruth Brennan
Sons: Arthur Wells 'Mike' Brennan and Andy Brennan.
Interred at San Fernando Mission Cemetery, San Fernando, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Had four top 100 singles, including the Top 5 hit "Old Rivers" (Liberty Records) which first charted on April 7, 1962. The single spent 11 weeks on the Billboard charts and peaked at number 5.
He won the first ever Best Supporting Actor Oscar for Come and Get It.
Inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1970.
His relatives still live in and around Joseph, Oregon where the actor maintained a functioning ranch.
Owned a ranch and several businesses in Joseph, Oregon, including the Indian Lodge Motel which still displays several of his portraits in the office.
Hardly ever played the villain, usually being cast as the somewhat eccentric pal to the hero. An exception was his turn as the heartless Old Man Clanton in My Darling Clementine, directed by the prickly John Ford. Ford and Brennan did not get along, and Ford was one of the few directors Brennan didn't collaborate with more than once throughout his career.
Always fiscally conservative, he became politically active in later life when he saw many of the things he held dear being eroded by the counterculture movement. He supported George Wallace's presidential campaign in 1968 and in 1972 supported extreme right-wing Republican Representative John Schmitz, as the incumbent President Richard Nixon was viewed as too progressive by many Republicans.
After his military service during World War I, Brennan moved to Los Angeles, where he got involved in the real-estate market and made a fortune. Unfortunately the market took a sudden downturn and Brennan lost almost all of his money. Broke, he began taking bit parts in films in order to earn money, and his career progressed from there.
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